Butler Shane, Jordan Tony
Addiction Research Centre, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Addiction. 2007 Jun;102(6):879-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01809.x.
To trace the evolution of Alcoholics Anonymous in Ireland from its establishment there in 1946, focusing on the efforts of early members to publicize the fellowship and negotiate a role for themselves in relation to existing religious and healthcare institutions.
Archival research, drawing mainly on primary sources in AA archives in New York and Dublin.
Anticipated tensions between this fellowship, which had its roots in Evangelical Protestantism, and the politically powerful Roman Catholic Church in Ireland were skillfully avoided; initial hostility from the medical profession quickly dissipated; and AA distanced itself from policy debate on the wider topic of alcoholism as disease.
The relatively smooth introduction of AA to Ireland, the first European country in which it was established, may be attributed to the essentially pragmatic nature of the fellowship and the strategic abilities of its early members.
追溯匿名戒酒互助会于1946年在爱尔兰成立后的发展历程，重点关注早期成员为宣传该团体以及在与现有的宗教和医疗机构的关系中为自身争取一席之地所做的努力。
档案研究，主要借鉴纽约和都柏林匿名戒酒互助会档案中的一手资料。
这个起源于福音派新教的团体与在爱尔兰政治上颇具影响力的罗马天主教会之间预期中的紧张关系被巧妙避免；医学界最初的敌意很快消散；匿名戒酒互助会在酗酒是否为疾病这一更广泛议题的政策辩论上保持距离。
匿名戒酒互助会相对顺利地进入爱尔兰（它在欧洲成立的首个国家），或许可归因于该团体本质上的务实特性及其早期成员的策略能力。
